Hell to the NO.
Don’t you remember the day before the interview? I do. I was listening to Hannity in the car and I found him over the top supporting Moore and not believing the allegations. My mind was a bit more open. I saw a lot of smoke for the allegations to be completely written off, on day one. I figured the swamp was after this guy, but I was concerned.
And after three hours on radio slavishly defending Moore, he got him on his show the very next day. I missed the interview but I heard the end of Hannity’s radio show after it. I was stunned that Sean was no longer supporting Moore blindly. What had happened? Found out on FR he’d interviewed him. Went to read the transcript.
It was clear why Sean had to moderate his tune. He had tried to pin Moore down as NOT having chosen to date teen girls in his thirties, trying to clear his name from that charge. It is a bad charge, even though your grandmother married at 16. It still doesn’t sound right in 2017.
But Moore had come on Hannity wholly unprepared to respond to this huge question. If Moore is a good man, but did date teens when he was over 30, he would have said so. He is a JUDGE in a very high court. There is no way for him not to know the truth is his BEST FRIEND in cases like this. The truth would have helped him.
“Yes, in my thirties I was attracted to young, of age women, and I even married a younger woman, and once I fell in love with my wife, I never looked at anyone else. We’ve had X blissful years together. I never dated anyone below the age of consent.” Problem disappeared.
But Sean had been turned off by Moore’s equivocal, dishonest answers, which led him to believe Moore was lying or hiding SOMETHING. That just won’t do. Moore was evidently NOT such a great guy in his thirties. A VERY flawed candidate even with the heaps of powdered sugar and halo placed on him by FReepers.
It’s his own fault he lost.
Yep, that is the way it could have been successfully handled.
But Sean had been turned off by Moore’s equivocal, dishonest answers, which led him to believe Moore was lying or hiding SOMETHING. That just won’t do. Moore was evidently NOT such a great guy in his thirties. A VERY flawed candidate even with the heaps of powdered sugar and halo placed on him by FReepers.
Yes, a very flawed candidate, no question. Very amateurish. Sean is a very honest guy and was probably only doing what he thought best. However, he was running a prosecutorial style interview. Contrast that with 60 minutes disinformational style interview, a.k.a. as Hillary's "Stand by your man" interview. Nothing but softball questions with no follow ups. Knowing what I know now, Bill and Hillary were probably given questions in advance so they could prepare their responses.